Last year we awarded the winners of the Blackheath CID Greening Competition with their prizes of R1000 meal vouchers to the Skilpadvlei Wine Farm Restaurant. As promised last year the competition begins anew in February when we will choose another 3 winners for the first half of 2013.
Remember also that I am very happy to assist you to develop your green spaces and have our team of staff that can assist with this also! We look forward to hearing from you. We still have Palm Trees, Yucca’s and some other trees and shrubs available to donate to your cause. They can be viewed at the BCID Office at our little nursery.
We have begun a process for the reinstatement of the verge at the roundabout at the corner of Wimbledon and Buttskop Roads. The original garden that we developed three years ago suffered damage during the welcome and most necessary road works that were carried out as part of the neighbouring housing developments. This project will be taken up in partnership with the City Parks division of the City of Cape Town and various other role players.
We are awaiting installation of water mains, funding for irrigation and vegetation and then we shall complete this project. I decided that considering the challenges we had relating to irrigation and maintenance at this location, it would be best to delay the project slightly and go for the option with irrigation to ensure the garden remains well kept and achieves the desired result of beautification!